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Sugar-Coating the Pill. The one possible outcome of the talks that the South Vietnamese government absolutely refuses to countenance is a coalition with the Communists. Truong Dinh Dzu, the presidential runner-up in last year's elections, was arrested last week for openly advocating coalition. Nonetheless, many members of the government have long maintained covert contacts with the Viet Cong and its political arm, the National Liberation Front, which is directed by Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who runs the front from a jungle redoubt. In many cases, the contacts are the residue of common cause...
...deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly, by sugar-coating the pill, the Communists hope to build the Alliance into a full-scale political entity that would be acceptable in a coalition government, as the Viet Cong and N.L.F. would...
...phenylbutazone found in Kennedy's sample cost him the primary despite the fact that many experts admit that the drug merely is a painkiller and not a pep pill...
...final Food and Drug Administration approval at last in hand, American Home will soon be entering the burgeoning (now $100 million-a-year) birth-control market with an oral contraceptive called Ovral. Under development for nine years, Ovral, says the company, is the first completely synthetic steroid birth-control pill; American Home expects it to win sales from the 19 other versions of the pill now on the market, by helping to eliminate unwanted side-effects...
...almost humorously, the Massachusetts law prohibits the pharmacist from selling any item he knows is for contraceptive purposes; condoms, as everyone knows, are for sanitation and that is stated on the package. And spermicidal foam is a lubricant. It might be useful to investigate the possibilities of using the pill as flavoring in milk...